The big man has a living father

Chapter 113 Sensation in Chang'an!

Lin Tian shook his head: "It was His Majesty who said that he would issue an order that soldiers are not allowed to do business. They must either be granted a title of nobility to do business and be an official at the same time, or they can only retire."

Niu Dazhuang: "Your Majesty, why do you rule this way?"

Lin Tian: "I have discussed this with them. They think that maybe business is too profitable. They are afraid that people will cherish their lives and dare not make meritorious deeds after they become rich. Therefore, business people have to give up their positions to new good family members."

Niu Dazhuang didn't care: "How much money can you make? How can you earn more than the bounty for winning the fight?"

Lin Tian was a little confused: "It's indeed okay, otherwise why should I be confused, wouldn't it be fine if I just sold the shares?"

Niu Dazhuang: “How much?”

Lin Tian: "Including the previous dividends, the dividends for these three months totaled 180,000."

Niu Dazhuang was stunned, thinking he had heard wrongly, and asked again: "How much?"

Lin Tian: "One hundred and eighty thousand coins."

"The dividends in the previous two months were only 30,000 because they were paid to us in advance. The normal dividend is one cent per month, but it may be changed to one cent per year in the future."

Niu Dazhuang has already figured it out: "180,000 for three months, that's 720,000 for a year?! A lot of money?!"

Seven hundred and twenty thousand! This is!
Lin Tian nodded: "So I'm a little confused."

Niu Dazhuang's eyes turned red: "Why are you still hesitating? You are so rich now, why do you still want to compete with your brothers for heads?"

"If you don't want the shares, sell them to me!"

How much would you sell a share that could earn you $720,000 a year without doing anything?
Niu Dazhuang looked up and thought, the Second Young Master Huo is so young and His Majesty is strong and healthy, he can run this business for thirty years without any problems.

Even if the coal mines are exhausted, they can move to another place to continue mining. Is it possible that miners cannot be recruited with such high salaries? Impossible.

In that case, paying ten times the profit to buy shares is definitely a good deal!
Niu Dazhuang: "How do you run this business? Why do you get so much share? How much share do you have? One percent?"

Lin Tian was dumbfounded: "Who? Me? One percent? Am I worthy of it? I have two ten-thousandths in my hand."

Niu Dazhuang poked his head out: "Mr. Duo?!"

"Two ten-thousandths, 720,000 a year?! How much profit must the coal mine have made!"

Lin Tian casually said: "In fact, only 40% of the profits were taken out as dividends, and the rest was invested in production, expanding production, and researching new technologies and new equipment. These are all conducive to increasing output value."

Niu Dazhuang grabbed Lin Tian's clothes and said, "That means the dividends will increase in the future?!"

Lin Tian was stunned: "Yes, today the vice president of the Royal Research Institute made a special report on which technologies can increase coal mine output and which technologies can improve transportation efficiency. He also talked about some technologies they are developing that can improve even more."

"I see that many of the technologies he talked about have already been used in the mine. Even if ten of the technologies under development become one, the production capacity will increase significantly next year."

Niu Dazhuang didn't know how to calculate, but he still tried his best to calculate the number. In the end, Niu Dazhuang felt that "the profit of this coal mine is close to one or two percent of the total tax of our Han Dynasty, right? How can it be so profitable?"

Niu Dazhuang soon realized that he had made a mistake and he mentioned the matter to another soldier.

The soldier was good at math and figured it out immediately: "If the monthly income of this coal mine is about the same as this average, then their annual income is not less than the total tax and grain of the Han treasury!"

"Nine hundred million a month, twelve months is 10.8 billion! I remember General Huo mentioned before that Your Majesty can get 4 billion a year, all of which are rewards for us to win the battle. Your Majesty can get 10 billion worth of money and food a year, most of which are left for us to fight the Huns."

"The income from this coal mine is comparable to that of the entire Han Dynasty!"

Niu Dazhuang was stunned. He thought the coal mine was only close to the total tax amount. How could he know it was so much?!

In fact, he was wrong.

How could the Han Dynasty collect so much tax?

That is actually the total amount of salt, iron, and various taxes in the country!

At this time, more than one Niu Dazhuang knew that a large number of the 200 soldiers returned to Chang'an and discussed with their family and friends whether they should retire.

The news of Tongguan Coal Mine's profits spread like wildfire.

The whole Chang'an was in an uproar.

"Have you heard that Tongguan Coal Mine is really rich?"

"Damn it, why didn't I think of digging coal and selling it!"

"How much? Did you hear 900 million instead of 900,000?"

"Damn it, I can't even accept 90,000 yuan, how can he accept 900 million yuan? And that's a month? It's every month, and it will even increase?!!"

"Ah? Isn't this rich enough to rival a country?!"

"Now your Majesty has more money in his private pocket than in the national treasury!"

The driver on the road: "Have you heard about this? Tongguan Coal Mine made this much in one year! It's amazing!"

"I was wondering why they charge us such a high freight rate for transporting coal! If you follow Mr. Huo, you will definitely get rich!"

"God of Wealth!"

He had misunderstood. The freight was actually paid by the buyer. After the transportation costs were settled, the transportation station still made a profit. The transportation costs and horse fees were all collected by the ranch. The coal mine did not pay or collect the transportation costs.

Otherwise, the coal mine’s total monthly revenue would have exceeded 1.3 billion yuan, so how could it be only 900 million yuan?

In the past few months, many people in Chang'an City have made money, more money than they could have earned in the past one or two years.

Everyone feels that life has gotten better and they can buy whatever they want to eat and drink.

It’s just money, I have plenty of it.

But now when I learned about the profits of Tongguan Coal Mine, I was stunned!

I am so proud of my few cents, but what kind of income is that to others? !

Not to mention super large shareholders like His Majesty and the second son of the Huo family, and not to mention medium-sized shareholders like the Sima family, the Lei family, and General Zhao, even if you pick any one of those small shareholders, his annual income could buy an entire street!

This is money!
This is not a coal mine, this is a gold mine! This is a machine for making super rich!
The most shocked were the nobles who were managing the construction of houses on Chang'an Avenue.

They invested nearly 100 million yuan in a joint venture to build a seven-kilometer cement road, and then each of them built houses along the road, aiming to make this avenue the most prosperous place in the world.

This is a move of such magnitude that it has never happened before in history!

However, now that they knew about the profits of Tongguan Coal Mine, a group of people realized that their investment was not taken seriously by the Second Young Master Huo!

Liu Sheng was shocked: "No wonder Mr. Huo left first after the discussion. He didn't think highly of our investment. We even discussed it with him and were prepared to spend money to ask him to help..."

Xiao Guang: "At that time, I could see that Mr. Huo didn't want to talk about money at all. I thought he wanted to avoid suspicion for the sake of his career, but I didn't expect...he didn't care about these little things..."

With an investment of 100 million for one street, they originally planned to take out 1% to 5% to attract Huo Hai to join the partnership.

Now it seems that 5% is only 5 million, which is not enough to distribute dividends to a few small shareholders.

Moreover, Tongguan Coal Mine does not just distribute dividends, they also retain much greater profits, which will be used for large-scale development and expansion of production capacity.

Doesn’t this mean that all the wealth in the world has gone to the Tongguan Coal Mine?

That’s not right. Why are ordinary people in Chang’an County becoming richer and richer recently? Where does the money come from?
The nobles who built the road began to wonder whether the money they took out would eventually become the money of the Second Master Huo.

But when I calculate carefully, it doesn't make sense. I only contributed a small amount of money, so how can I deserve it?
No matter how much they calculated, they could not have predicted that Liu Che's private copper mine was working overtime to produce copper.

In the past, the cost of producing copper coins was no less than the face value, so Liu Che thought of making Wuzhu coins with less weight.

But recently, after the steel plant's technology was upgraded, Liu Che discovered that melting and extracting copper ore was very easy and at a very low cost?
A large amount of Sanzhu coins flooded into the market.

At this time, many nobles were still secretly making Sanzhu coins themselves.

The cost of making Sanzhu coins was as high as 60%, but they also made a 40% profit.

However, after being transported to Chang'an, less than 40% of the money was spent. After all, so much money had to be spent in Chang'an.

But they are not privately minting coins in Chang'an, that would be courting death.

But even so, you can still make 10% by privately minting coins.

Little did they know that the emperor himself was also minting coins, and that he made 80% of his money…

The amount of money in Chang'an is increasing, and the money is also spreading around and turning into resources and being sent back to Chang'an.

The whole process is too complicated for any one person to figure it out on their own.

But everyone knows that as more money is available and prices rise slightly, business opportunities increase a hundredfold.

Xiao Guang was a smart man and quickly thought of the question: "Your Highness, King Zhongshan, can we open a coal mine?"

"Even if we can't make as much money as Chang'an, can we open a coal mine in Hedong and make money from Hedong?"

Zhongshan Wang Meng raised his head: "Huh?! Yes, can we open a coal mine?"

Xiao Guang: "Also, if we can find out the method of firing cement."

Liu Sheng shook his head: "In my vassal state, few people can afford cement."

Xiao Guang grabbed Liu Sheng's wrist and said, "King of Zhongshan, if we build a road from the mountains to Xindu, it doesn't need to be as wide as Chang'an. Just three or five meters wide will be enough. If we can transport the grain that can't be transported out of the mountains to Xindu, won't it be much faster?"

"Then we can take the water route from Xindu to Chang'an. You should know that the food in Chang'an is nearly twice as expensive as that in Xindu, and nearly three times as expensive as those in the mountains of Jizhou!"

"Also, bacon is popular in Chang'an, so we can make bacon and charcoal in Xindu, and also send those goods and leather clothes that can't be sold at a high price to Chang'an!"

Liu Sheng's eyes widened: "Yeah, why didn't I think of that?!!!"

Xiao Guang: "It's so expensive for us to hire people to build roads in Chang'an, but it's not that expensive to build roads in Jizhou!"

"Even if other people also want to build roads and bid up the price, it would only be over a thousand dollars, which is high enough. The cost of building a road is far less than that of Chang'an."

Liu Sheng took a deep breath: "Is it going to be published?!"

Sent it?

Xiao Guang: "King Zhongshan, we have to hurry up. If I can think of it, others can think of it too. Let's not talk about other places in Jizhou, but near your fiefdom, we can cooperate, fifty-fifty!"

Liu Sheng looked up. He usually only dared to let three dancers dance together. Damn it, once the road was repaired and he made a fortune, he would make a fortune and then form a dance troupe!

The only question, though, is...can I get the cement formula?
Xiao Guang thought quickly: "To be honest, Mr. Huo may not be interested in these little things."

"He might be willing to sell."

Liu Sheng: "How is that possible? No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Why would you sell the secret recipe?"

Xiao Guang: "What if we promise to open a factory only in Xindu and never anywhere else?"

"Or, we can send people to sneak into the cement factory and find out the approximate formula. Maybe we can make it, but the quality will definitely not be as good as the cement factory itself. And if we pay, we can also learn better technology from the cement factory. In the future, if they innovate the technology, we will continue to buy it, expand production capacity and reduce costs!"

"Also, now that we have a basis for cooperation, we also need to buy the brick technology. If we build roads in Xindu, will we also create a group of rich people like we did in Chang'an? Don't they want to live in better houses? We also want to build better houses on the roadside and sell them to them!"

The concept that money makes money makes money quickly spread in the minds of people in Chang'an.

How come Mr. Huo is so good at making money?
You can’t go wrong by learning from him!
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Wannian County.

Shi Qing remained silent after listening to this. After a long while, he said, "That was the money earned by your Majesty and Mr. Huo, not because Chang'an County became prosperous."

"We continue with our plan. As long as more people can learn to read, wealth will eventually come to our Wannian County."

Zheng Antai whispered, "But Mr. Shi... the night schools established in Chang'an County also welcomed a wave of registration today. There are even more people signing up than in primary schools! Currently, the total number of registrations for primary schools and night schools in Chang'an County has exceeded 10,000."

Shi Qing: "What?! How is it possible!?!!!"

(End of this chapter)